Tomato heaven 🍅

New arrival 😊

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Just look at all that gleaming, healthy beetroot at Frith Farm, on its way to be roasted and frozen ahead of Freedom FEASTival on Sunday September 3!

We'll be releasing some exciting FEASTival news this week, so keep your ears to the ground for details about how you can nominate someone for something very special... ... See more

Monday's Harvest... Have you ever seen a beet so big?
See you at the Annek shortly.

Delicious healthy recipe idea! The Rainbow chard we get from Frith Farm is amazing! ❤️💛💚💙💜

Brimming brilliant broccoli!

Another day on the farm brings new exciting produce. Broccoli well on its way.

- and a lovely photo of Ben.

Great produce reaching great places.

Superb produce from @frithfarming today locally grown chemical free zero food miles #rainbowchard #radish #heritagecarrots #gooseberries #lovesummer #food #cheflife #chefofinstagram #thewestwoodrestaurant #beverley #eastyorkshire ... See more

Just the finishing touches left for the Monday Box Scheme Harvest - Drop off Soon !
The first Fresh tomatoes will be on their way and we're keeping the tops on the beetroot.
Thank you for the support for local organic producers! ... See more

Box scheme ready for drop off point - the annex
See you all soon!
Don't forget your bag!

Cucumbers almost there x

Damning assessment by one of the UK’s chief scientific advisers says global regulations have ignored the impacts of ‘dosing whole landscapes’ and must change

We're focusing on Brassica whitefly for this week's #Fridaytip. Whitefly can survive the #winter on Brussels sprouts, broccoli, winter cabbage and kale.

These tiny, white creatures fly up in clouds when the plants are disturbed. Pick off infested lower leaves; the young #whitefly ‘scales’ live on the underside of these. Also pick off any cabbage white #caterpillars. #Fridaytip #whitefly

Photo credit: Ray Spence ... See more

Lovely video on BBC News of the inspirational Eunice McGhie Belgrave - a fantastic grower who we've had the pleasure of working with on many occasions...

The 'First Lady Of The Allotments' is 83 and teaching her juniors 'about life' and green thumbs.

Our #plant of the week this week is the #Sorbus #aucuparia 'Fastigiata'.

You can find the Sorbus aucuparia in our Cooks Garden, displaying it's beautiful red #berries. The #Sorbus is a slow growing columnar tree that enjoys most soil types and is ideal for the smaller #garden.

#plantoftheweek #Sorbusaucuparia #Columnartree ... See more

Did you know that next week is #Recycle Week? Get ready for the launch of Recycle Now's fun new video series showing you why recycling is worth it!

#RecycleWeek #recycling #waste #organic

#simpleswitch No.7
Let your lawn grow a little wild! The #organic lawn is made up of 1000's of different plants, not just grass. Leave them to grow long in some areas, to provide shelter and food for #pollinating insects – #beetles and even #frogs will thank you.

Just mow where you want to sit, or create interesting pathways through the beautiful long swaying grasses. #simpleswitch #organicseptember #ChooseOrganic ... See more

We hope you have enjoyed our #WeedyWednesday series as much as we have.

Our final #WeedyWednesday offers advice on how to harness the valuable #nutrients from #weeds. With care, you can compost them, roots and all.

Here we tell you how... ... See more

Weedy Wednesday - Composting Weeds Our final Weedy Wednesday article offers advice on how to harness the valuable nutrients from weeds. With care, you can compost them, roots and all. Here we tell you how:Composting perennial weedsMost composting advice suggests that only weed foliage is added to th... ... See more

These free classes from Southwark Master Gardeners are a great place to get tips and inspiration for how to preserve the food you grow in your school garden!

More info: http://bit.ly/2hilU3J

Do you have experience of saving #seed from #vegetables?

If you do, our Next steps in seed saving #course is just for you! This course is ideal for those who want to take their #skills in #seed #saving to the next level - focusing on two types of seed with more complex requirements.

Interested? Pop a space in your diary for 12th #October 2017, 9.30am-1pm and secure your place! ... See more

Next Steps in Seed Saving at: Ryton Organic Gardenson: Thursday, 12 October 2017 - 9:30am to 1:00pmThis is the perfect follow on from our ‘Introduction to Seed Saving’ course, or is ideal for those with some experience of saving seed from vegetables, who are looking to further their skills.The sessi... ... See more

Huge fruit on Alistair MacGillivray's 'Pacific Giant' squash plant, about 70cm and still getting bigger - see the foot at the bottom right for scale! Don't forget we're running a free competition on this one - there's a £20 seed voucher for the person who sends in the most impressive photo of their results. ... See more

It's that exciting time of year when seed starts ripening thick and fast 🙂 Below are the first few umbels of Manchester Table carrot seed ready to harvest in the tunnel.

We've just harvested the tree onions - they're drying nicely in the barn, and we've got a few of the earliest ones packed up now.
http://realseeds.co.uk/onionsspecial.html#onts

We found lots of little baby lizards while we were clearing up in front of the tunnel - they move very fast, but one stayed still long enough for a photo.

Some of the flowers we've got growing amongst the vegetables on our fields at the moment - great for the bees, and some of them are edible too.

Everything is growing so fast right now. The edible lupin 'dieta' has set loads of pods. The seeds of this special variety are hopefully non-bitter and are cooked or pickled as 'altramuz'; a high yielding, fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing food crop. ... See more

Here's a fantastic photo of our Painted Mountain corn, just sent in by James Wilde of Invergowrie in Scotland. (And yes, he did grow it in a greenhouse to get it this early - but the outdoors one are just starting to make cobs now as well.) ... See more

Now how about this for a tomato colour scheme!

Pulleys are great 🙂

The water tower is finished - now all we have to do is figure out how to get the enormous tank on top of it!